A backported whois client for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy)
I still run Ubuntu Hardy (8.04 LTS) on servers, since I'm willing to trade some newer features for package stability. Alas, once in awhile, this stability becomes a problem: the standard whois client...
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Conditional redirection with lighttpd: evolving my webtmp folder
Very often, I need to quickly host a file for use in a forum post or on IRC. My usual approach has been to mount a "temporary" directory from my web server on my desktop, over ssh. However, I recently...
View ArticleLifehacking: the quest for efficiency
This morning, in my quest to get caught up on my RSS feeds, a discussion about the best lifehacks mentioned in the daily best-of tldr reddit caught my eye. I consider myself a bit of a lifehacker, but...
View ArticleRunning PHP 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Recently, I was tasked with installing a Drupal environment on an existing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) server. This release is the first Ubuntu release to ship with PHP 5.3. Unfortunately, while the...
View ArticleVoicemail notifications with Asterisk and Google Voice
We use Asterisk 1.4 for our home telephone system, with FreePBX 2.7 as the front end. This allows great flexibility to do strange things, although a home PBX is certainly a little overkill for a...
View ArticleRIT's 19th Undergraduate Research and Innovation Symposium
RIT hosted their 19th annual Undergraduate Research and Innovation Symposium on Friday, August 13, showcasing over 100 undergraduate research projects across (and between) all of RIT’s disciplines. I...
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Hanging out with my PEAPs: Wireless Access Control with IEEE 802.1x, PEAP,...
I’ve been having some weird kernel lockup problems when using the authenticated WPA2 network at RIT. Since I can’t effectively bring my kernel bug troubleshooting tools to campus, I decided I needed...
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Review: Sharpie Liquid Pencil
Since man’s first forays into the written word, his dreams and aspirations have centered around improving the weakest link in the compositional process: the interface between nebulous mind and printed...
View ArticleA Case for Working with Your Hands
Matthew Crawford, author of the best-selling Shop Class as Soulcraft, opened the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series at RIT on September 8. Crawford, whose...
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Trust, but verify, your life safety technology
For as long as I can remember, firefighters have been known for their twice-a-year reminder to change your smoke alarm batteries when you change your clocks. However, since most new smoke alarms...
View ArticleBlog software upgrade: Now running b2evolution 4.0.3
(Because, obviously, I pay a lot of attention to this blog.) Due to a sudden, unexplained surge of productivity, targetted at matters not immediately related to schoolwork or awesomely-fun client...
View ArticleWhy I Support Universal Healthcare
As many of my compadres know, my wife and I head down to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania each year for the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally, a two-day rally race through the forests of north central...
View ArticleMikroTik RB750GL: Linux goes into the closet
Once in awhile, a product comes along that makes me smack my forehead and exclaim “I’ve been doing it wrong!” After a week of mulling my latest solution – an OSPFv3-powered IPv6 OpenVPN network between...
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